The Writers

Mike Coates

"Coach" - "Jackets" - "Hoody Commish" - "W.B.BF" - "The Hebrew Hammer" "Mini-Me" "Neo"

Welcome to my blog!!! We are undoubtedly in an era of Sweet Caroline, girls and guys who wear flip flops to Bruins games, and utter confusion when the Patriots lose a game, because its Tom Brady, and how is that possible, right?!

At sox games, when I hear that piecing voice screaming their lungs out for their "baby boy" (Jacoby of course) I think back to the late 90's when hockey (mainly FOX) had the glowing puck (ya know the blue highlighted puck, which would turn red when it was shot over 70mph) to try getting the pink hats involved...

...Then I realized the sad truth of it all, this is all caused by winning...

Titletown has been blessed with world class talent over the past 12yrs and brought the city of Boston 3 Superbowl Titles (5 appearences), 2 World Series Championships, 1 NBA Title (2 appearences), and most recently the hoisting of sports' greatest trophy, Lord Stanley of Preston's Cup to the Boston Bruins

My cousin would tell you she couldn't even pay people to take her tickets in the early 90's for some of those Patriots games... The Celtics were barely able to pay their rent (yes pink hats, the Bruins own the Garden, not the Celtics), never mind sell season ticket packages before "The Big 3"... Red Sox nation was a real pride until the 2nd championship past by... and the average person couldn't name you more than 3 Bruins players, or know what icing means (most still don't)

What are we left with? The new curse... Pink Hat Nation... A Universal Cross-Sports infection

Now we do have some great pink hat moments like this (I was in NY at this game 4 rows behind these girls actually too...)

And then we have our normal run of the mill pink hat moments like this... (Corner of Yawkey Way & Boylston Street, 2011)

...Welcome to Pink Hat Nation...

Toucher and Rich on the morning show of 98.5 The Sports Hub have been driving home the Pink Hat concept with their weekly "Ask a Pink Hat" plug in which they interview some of the talent that pours out of the gates of Fenway Park post-game with 5 questions about the game they just attended (note I did not say watched)... Check in for those highlights from the Flagship Station and enjoy our other borrowed material from time to time as well

Life Resume: BA Management & Marketing from UMass Lowell 2009, Hockey (goalie age 5-22 now left wing age 22-present), Golf, Snowboarding, Kayaking, Surfing... 13yrs of Fantasy Football, Bruins season ticket holder since 2007 (Sec. 309 Row 10 Seats 1&2), captain of my NESHL men's hockey team - Shenanigans... Traveled to Australia/NZ 2007 to study abroad... Favorite players include Brett Farve, Bobby Orr, Troy Brown, Tiger Woods, and Pedro Martinez

I do have a life, so this will not be up-to-the-minute news or feeds, but it will be a good place for our friends, local teams, fantasy football league, and others to come have a good laugh, do some shit talking, and let it fly... Enjoy the pages, blogs, and news everyone!!!
 

Jim Doucette

"J-Duce" - "Jimbo Douche" - "The Reggins" - "That Retard's Cousin"

Jim is the sports guru of our staff here... A vault of sports knowledge (aside from basketball, because lets face it, it's Boston's 4th sport even with the NHL in a lockout), a massive fantasy football/baseball/hockey player, leading slugger on his local men's softball team, and if there's someone's name you've never heard of before, Jim knew the guy's birthday a week before you were even asking who is this guy?

Jim is also my go-to Bruin's buddy, as we attend 6-8 games a year together (regular & post season) and he updated me on the latest guys coming up from juniors, Providence, and the draft (and in baseball too)... Jim can hold an argument for as long as he can keep crushing Bud Lights, which normally leads to me getting hammered and losing the argument before he stops... Check for Jim's posts, blogs, and page updates... He will probably be the only one writing real stories here haha

James Brown

"Mr. 21" - "Tahiti Loungers" - "JB" - "Brownie"

James has been involved in sports for a very long time- throughout the years he has played baseball, hockey, football, basketball, tennis, golf, skiing, racquetball, volleyball, dodgeball, etc...

James Brown by the numbers...

• Umass-Amherst - BS in Sport Management in 2009
• Fantasy sports since 1999
• Favorite teams: Bruins, Pats, Sox, and Boise State football
• Favorite sports moments: 2007 and 2010 Fiesta Bowls, the 2011 Stanley Cup run, the 2005 World Series and the Patriots undefeated season that fell short in 07.
• James has visited and seen baseball games at 16 different Major League parks
• James also has shot a hole in one (age 14)
• And James Brown has a Stanley Cup ring, earned by working for the Bruins in 2011. 

Ken Nee

“Random” – “Nicknames” – “Coates” – “Probably” – “Made Up”

            The Rundown

• Graduated from Villanova School of Business in 2010, Currently attending Suffolk Law at night
• Play(ed): Hockey, Rugby, Golf, Baseball, Soccer, every intramural sport possible and some of that fantasy shit.
• Top 3 sporting events ever attended in person: 2011 Stanley Cup Final Game 6, 2007 ALCS Game 6, 2009 Final Four
• Member of Team Shenanigans. Duties include: being a staple of the scoring line, berating NESHL referees, telling Coates not to pull the goalie with 8 minutes left and making sure the beers get finished.
• Voted most likely to write drunken profanity laced posts on this blog
• Thoroughly enjoy putting pictures of myself in bios